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‘Beautiful, Beautiful Moment’: Ten Years Since Europe’s Columbus Lab Arrived at Space Station
Ten years ago, this month, Space Shuttle Atlantis sprang from historic Pad 39A at the Kennedy Space Center (KSC) in Florida, to kickstart the final phase of International Space Station (ISS) construction. A decade since the first elements of the football-field-sized outpost had been placed into orbit, the core structure was in place, ready to […] More
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Handover Complete? 10 Years Since Whitson Became First Female Space Station Commander
The event was almost an anticlimax. On 19 October 2007, ten years ago today, Peggy Whitson became the first woman in history to take command of a space station. Surrounded by five astronauts and cosmonauts from three sovereign nations—including Malaysia’s first astronaut, Sheikh Muszaphar Shukor—she was already a veteran, having spent six months aboard the […] More
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Whitson and Fischer Discuss Record-Setting Multi-Month ISS Increment
A week since their return from low-Earth orbit, Expedition 52 astronauts Peggy Whitson and Jack Fischer gathered before a crowd of journalists at the Johnson Space Center (JSC) in Houston, Texas, earlier today (Monday), to discuss their months of research, spacewalking and record-breaking activity aboard the International Space Station (ISS). Fischer wrapped up a 136-day […] More
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Whitson Sets Endurance, EVA Records for Women, Wraps Up Ten-Month Space Station Expedition
The world’s most experienced female space traveler is tonight enjoying her first full day back on Earth, after returning from a third trip to the International Space Station (ISS). Veteran astronaut Peggy Whitson—the first woman to fly as many as three long-duration space missions—wrapped up 288 days, 5 hours and 1 minute across her 9.5 […] More
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SpaceX Launches Third Dragon of 2017 to Space Station, Lands 6th Rocket on LZ-1
For the ninth time this year, the roar of nine Merlin 1D+ engines pummeled Pad 39A at the Kennedy Space Center (KSC) in Florida earlier today (Monday, 14 August), as SpaceX successfully delivered its third Dragon cargo mission of 2017 onto a course for the International Space Station (ISS). Liftoff of the Upgraded Falcon 9 […] More
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UPDATE: Good Falcon 9 Test Fire as SpaceX Aims for Aug 14 CRS-12 Launch
UPDATED Aug 10: SpaceX conducted a successful static test fire of the Falcon 9 rocket at pad 39A today, scheduled to launch CRS-12 next week. Watch our video of today’s test fire below: More
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Soyuz MS-05 Crew Launches, Bound for 4.5 Month ISS Increment
Three new spacefarers from Russia, Italy and the United States have launched from Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan, bound for a 4.5-month tour of duty aboard the International Space Station (ISS). Veteran cosmonaut Sergei Ryazansky, seasoned NASA shuttle flyer and spacewalker Randy “Komrade” Bresnik and Italy’s oldest man in space, 60-year-old Paolo Nespoli, launched aboard Soyuz […] More
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Multi-National Soyuz MS-05 Crew Ready for Friday Launch to Space Station
For the first time in almost four years, three Americans will be aboard the International Space Station (ISS) together this weekend, as Soyuz MS-05 brings a new team of astronauts and cosmonauts to the multi-national orbiting outpost. Veteran shuttle flyer Randy Bresik, Russian cosmonaut Sergei Ryazansky and Italy’s Paolo Nespoli are slated to launch from […] More
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First Reusable Dragon Cargo Mission Launches Science and Supplies to Space Station
If candles celebrate an anniversary, then the roar of Merlin 1D+ rocket engines honored the 100th launch from Pad 39A at the Kennedy Space Center (KSC) in Florida, earlier today (Saturday, 3 June). SpaceX’s Upgraded Falcon 9 booster roared aloft from the historic complex at 5:07 p.m. EDT, precisely on the cusp of an “instantaneous” […] More
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‘The Clock Was Ticking’: 15 Years Since STS-111’s Repairmen Visited the Space Station (Part 2)
Over the past five decades, more than 500 people have voyaged beyond Earth’s atmosphere and into space. Some have been “frequent flyers”, chalking up multiple missions into low-Earth orbit and—in the case of 24 Apollo astronauts—to lunar distance. Yet with the advent of the Space Shuttle program, the idea of frequently flying humans into space […] More
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‘We Had a Bet…and I Lost’: 15 Years Since STS-111’s Repairmen Visited the Space Station (Part 1)
Fifteen years ago, next week, the second human to launch from Earth as many as seven times began what would be his final space mission. Costa Rica-born U.S. plasma physicist Dr. Franklin Chang-Diaz, it might be supposed, had seen and done everything during his two-decade astronaut career. He had deployed and retrieved satellites, had performed […] More
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Whitson/Fischer Stand on Shoulders of Titans for Historic 200th ISS Spacewalk
For the fifth time in as many months in 2017, a pair of astronauts ventured outside the International Space Station (ISS) earlier today (Friday, 12 May), tasked with a broad range of objectivess, including the removal and replacement of an avionics box and the installation of data connectors, protective shielding, a new high-definition camera and a […] More
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